Gwangju International Center

SPEAKER: Jen Lee

CO-WRITER:​ NOH Hojin

GIC TALK DATE: April 30, 2016

GIC TALK TITLE: From Pixels to Paper: A Webcomic Artist's Journey

Reading Webcomics is very popular and attractive to Internet users especially in Korea. Today’s GIC Talk speaker, Jen Lee, an award-winning comic artist, presented her journey as a webcomic Artist and explained how to draw webcomics, by showing her progress comics and sharing with us the thought process that you need to go through when creating comics. 

Jen Lee considers herself as a workaholic. She works as a freelance artist, a food blogger, a radio guest and animator and many more. So, I believe that her different experiences can be seen through her Webcomic storyline.

She explained the truth behind the glamorous image of being a comic artist, and all the hard work and struggles that go along with life in general. Jen Lee shared her adventures, and helped us learn from the successes and failures that she had experienced along the way.

The major factor that helped her go through the different difficulties of her life was the support she received from others, both friends and family. Each person who helped her were key factors in creating the Webcomics and having it be published on time. Even though she was highly tempted to do all the work by herself, she needed this support from others. 

Finally, Jen Lee detailed the process she went through to realize her dream of printing the first book of her “Dear Korea” comics.

After her funny and honest presentation, copies of the “Dear Korea Volume One” book were available for purchase and signing by the author. I was so impressed by her Talk that I decide to buy a copy of her book and have it signed.
Thank you again Jen Lee for your great GIC Talk!